December 20, 2005

Wal-Mart to intensify compliance drive

Wal-Mart is planning to push harder to get its suppliers to follow its wireless tagging mandates. Wal-Mart has already deployed RFID at five distribution centers and at 500 stores. The company plans to extend RFID to 1000 stores by the end of 2006. msnbc.msn.com reports:

"We've started communicating to some of the suppliers who have been reluctant – which is a nice way of saying it – to say, 'We can't invest any more time in you'."

Read More:WalMart toughens push on wireless tagging

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